Greenwire: The Interior Department announced today that it has finalized a new rule that will allow renewable energy and other projects to obtain permits to injure, kill or disturb bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years, a move that pleases the wind power industry but alarms environmentalists.
The revised rule, set to take effect next month, will allow the Fish and Wildlife Service to grant programmatic incidental "take" permits to wind farms, transmission projects and other long-term energy operations...